I LOVED RIGHTLY

Had I known my ways were wrong

and that I was being scorned at

Would I have changed my ways

I do not think so

For loving is not a crime

You can love more than one at a time

Do not try to attach labels to relations

Do not try to differentiate love within genders

A man loves in the same way as a woman

Depending on what he or she understands about love

Love cannot be possessed

by labeled relations of society

Love cannot be caged

Love cannot be dictated upon

and showered upon as per your wishes

Love is not a perfume that you will don

and get started for the gala night

How puzzled I become when love

through their eyes I see

I could not accept it then

I cannot accept it now either

I will love in my way

Or I will move away

It does not bother me when they

open their hearts to me

For I do not see love there but lust

Maybe for others a must

How can you such a man trust

Who could not see beyond the coated dust

I did nothing wrong

I loved rightly

To hell with this society

They scorned me as they

never could love

my way.

For them a possession

For me not an obsession.

But an open confession

that I loved rightly

And to this love I

hold on tightly.

©sunita grover raina2022

24/06/22

India

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